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Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers
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Title of document: Bill of Fare at Commons at the University
of North Carolina for the Year 1808, December 10, 1807

Author: B. Williams

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Bill of Fare at Commons at
the University of North Carolina for the Year 1808,
December 10, 1807

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of
Trustees

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Bill of Fare At Commons at
the University of North Carolina for the year
1808

For Breakfast.

A sufficient quantity of good milk, or a pint of good Coffee or
Tea, or Chocolate or Tea, together with a warm roll or loaf of wheat or corn
flour bread, at the option of each student, during each session in the year,
except during the months of Jany., Feby., and March, and for those months the
wheat bread may be cold, but will risen; also a sufficient quantity, not
exceeding an ounce of Butter, in place of which meats may at any time be
substituted with the permission of the Faculty.

For Dinner.

A dish of Bacon and greens, or Beef and turnips, together with a
sufficient quantity of fresh meats or fowls, or puddings or tarts, and warm
wheat or corn bread; and during the months of Jany., Feby., and March, it shall
be the duty of the Steward to furnish on every Sunday a sufficient number of
Turkies —also potatoes and all other kinds of vegetable food usually
served up in
Carolina.

For Supper.

A sufficiency of Milk from the 15th of May
to the 15th of September inclusive, and during the

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remainder of each session a pint of Coffee or Tea at
the option of the Steward, and the necessary quantity of warm bread or
biscuit.

In
the Board of Trustees of
the University of N. Carolina

December 10 1807

Resolved that the bill of fare at Commons in
the Univ. of N. Carolina for the year 1808 be fairly
transcribed by the Sec. of
the Board and transmitted to the Faculty of the said
University; and that the Faculty cause such
transcript to be stuck up in the public dining room, and see that the same is
kept up throughout the two next sessions.